Volvo 480 Club Europe

No Daniël

that's no option.
But in due time we might get ourselves a weekend cruiser, perhaps even another 480

Thanks for the nice words guys.
But don't worry, I'll continue to visit this forum anyway.

:cryhard: After 61 months / 136,00 km of joyfull motoring it is time to call it a day. A daily commute of 150 miles on petrol is, from a economical point of view, simply out of the question. Have discussed the LPG option with the people at my workshop but in view of the higher servicing costs that's...

Bakke,

your wish is my command

http://photobucket.com/albums/v11/leven ... ge/GroupA/

Well Xander,

2B quite honest Kwikfit is a no go area for me and my Cheesewedge.
Perhaps they are experts when it comes to post 2001 passengercars but I will never allow them to come anywhere near my BlueBell.

Good for you Milosz

I usually change gears at 2,500 rpm so I'm nowhere near your league.

Daniël, we'll see what happens. Currently I'll have 3 scenario's worked out. Which one it will be depends on the compensation i'll receive from my Employer. BTW When you check out this http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/highmileage/4_model_search.php listing I'll have a lot of mileage ahead of me before I...

Well Bramdeman,

you might be right but my engineer has 20 years hands-on experience with the Volvo 4xx series, so he knows all the ins and outs of their engines and motormanagementsystem.
So if he advises me against converting a 480 Turbo to LPG I take his word for it.

Well Daniël, don't know yet. All my preconceptions concerning mileage on petrol cars have been proven wrong sofar. First I thought I was a fool when I seriously considered buying an 8 year old car with 174,000 + km road experience. Then I thought 200,000 km would be a phenomenal milestone. And when...

Suppose your mechanic is right as my engineer told me the same.
As far as the 480 is concerned only the naturally aspirated versions are suited.
So I'm afraid it's a NO for the Turbo version

Had an interestig discussion yesterday with my engineer on this topic. Hopefully I'll have a new job in the not to distant future. Unfortunately it is located at a 60+ miles distance from where I live, so I'll have to put in a lot of mileage each month, fortunately 95% highway mileage though. With t...

Just to inform you all that I'm a happy man.
My favorite wedge of cheese

passed her annual MOT with flying colors.
Not bad at all for a 13 year old Turbo with 308.500+ km roadexperience I might add

mmmm,

seems Volvo will launch the C30 sometime next year
http://www.autoweek.nl/newsdisp.php?cache=no&ID=4077
sorry guys: the article is in Dutch but I'm sure you'll get the gist of it

Don't see the problem Richmann,
just make sure your firiend is always riding shotgun

FireFox works just fine
Currently using the 1.5 Beta 1 version

Well I've got my fair share of electrical problems too. We are currently using our cheesewedge only for our weekly shoppingrun and a weekly trip to a village nearby (a 25 km roundtrip). Yesterday evening she wouldn't start and this morning the ANWB (dutch equivalent of the RAC) diagnosed a flat batt...

Hey guys, that was a rethorical question :hopping: check out http://photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/GroupA/ for the group A car and http://photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/Cabrio/?action=view¤t=V02EBSKoch040403.jpg for the cabrio than you'll understand I've...

BBF,

how do you know the red one is a cabrio

Ever wanted to race with a 480 on a circuit? Found this change of a lifetime on marktplaats.nl: 4 sale in Belgium http://www.marktplaats.nl/markt/autos/volvo/64472.htm?ret=%2Fnieuw_zoek.php3%3Fq%3Dvolvo%2B480%26p%3D1%26d%3D1%26pv%3Dall%26g%3D4%26u%3D22%26s%3D50%26m%3D0%26show_thumbnails%3D1%26search...

Suppose it's just for dutchies or people who don't mind driving to Spijkenisse (a small town near Rotterdam) While surrfing the inet I came across a guy who selling loads of reconditioned engines for prices which are (he claims) 30 - 50% below the market value. The engines are ex Vege, Spijkenisse. ...